Saxon Quotes

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

— Seamus Heaney

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

— Gylve Nagell

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

— Connie Willis

“Solitude is an Anglo-Saxon concept.”

— Lucia Berlin

To me, you had to have a least a couple of ugly guys in the band. That's why Saxon was great.

— Paul Gilbert

“Oh gosh. I mean, I love Saxon. Yes I do. *slaps forehead* *runs fingers despairingly through hair*”

— M

“I'm winning a date with you. Granted, it's the frigging lamest date on earth, but I'm winning it anyway.”

— Liz Reinhardt

“Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of…

— Liz Reinhardt

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous…

— Ambrose Bierce

Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach…

— Joaquin Miller

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no…

— H. Beam Piper

“The fair Saxon man, with open front, and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved…

— Josiah Strong

“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And,…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that…

— H. L. Mencken

“An Anglo-Saxon, Hinnissy, is a German that's forgot who was his parents. They're a lot iv thim in this counthry. There must…

— Finley Peter Dunne